A. N. Wilson Quotes

People would rather believe than know.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

Holiness has nothing to do with what we know and everything to do with Who we know.

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

Put opportunity ahead of security.

I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

Christianity is hard when we try to serve God in man's way instead of serving God in God's way.

There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb.

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

It's a long year, and there is going to be ups and downs, but you just have to take the positives and be patient.

Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Listen to no man who has not listened to God.

The great test of faith is to wait on God. . . not expecting to push a button and get whatever we want now.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

I don't like being lied to.

I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

I was a total dork in high school.

One planet, one experiment.

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.

I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists.

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: Nurses make a difference.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.